Automation and the Worker: A Study of Social Change in Power Plants

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Reports one of the most comprehensive and detailed case studies of the introduction of automated equipment yet published.... The questions asked reflect an exceptionally thorough understanding of the research site and the quality of the data collected is partly attributable to an especially felicitous combination of initial field observational and subsequent questionnaire research techniques.... The data reported ... make an important contribution to the informational base from which analytical models may be constructed.-American Sociological Review
"Reports one of the most comprehensive and detailed case studies of the introduction of automated equipment yet published.... The questions asked reflect an exceptionally thorough understanding of the research site and the quality of the data collected is partly attributable to an especially felicitous combination of initial field observational and subsequent questionnaire research techniques.... The data reported ... make an important contribution to the informational base from which analytical models may be constructed."-American Sociological Review

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